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Chesterfield Royal Hospital

NHS Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chesterfield College is delighted to be able to partner with Chesterfield Royal Hospital, an acute hospital providing healthcare and community services for more than 400,000 people across Derbyshire.

As the two key anchor organisations within Northeast Derbyshire, Chesterfield College and Chesterfield Royal Hospital have been able to establish a strong collaborative partnership, in which has presented an abundance of opportunities to enhance our student experience, expand our curriculum and reinforce their workforce with core knowledge, skills and behaviours that are aligned to industry. In 2024, Chesterfield College and Chesterfield Royal Hospital signed the collaboration charter to further strengthen these links and to commit to working together in partnership for future years.

Throughout this partnership, Aidan Page (Apprenticeship Co-ordinator) and many of his colleagues from Chesterfield Royal Hospital have engaged with various employer engagement events, playing a vital role in contributing to the design and validation of our curriculum to support with preparing our students and apprentices for their future progression opportunities, linked to their chosen career paths.

As a result of this, bespoke and innovative provision has been introduced via our curriculum offer alongside an ever-growing Apprenticeship programme that continues to go from strength to strength with fantastic outcomes achieved – 100% first time Pass/Distinction End-Point Assessment results!

Key initiatives/success stories of Partnership:

Apprenticeship provision

Chesterfield Royal Hospital have taken on a vast number of apprentices across multiple sectors such as Business Administration and Team Leader/Supervisor.

Work Experience/Industry Placement opportunities

The organisation have supported students by facilitating many Work Experience/Industry Placement opportunities across a range of curriculum areas –.an impactful component of this initiative has been the facilitation of the robust Recruitment and Selection process in which has supported students with preparing for the workplace. Students studying in Health benefit from being able to undertake gold standard Industry Placement opportunities provided and supported by staff in the Education Centre at the hospital.

Guest Lectures/Career Talks

Aidan and colleagues frequently deliver employer-led sessions to our students in relation to curriculum and wider-themed topics. Staff from the Education Centre regularly provide insights into career opportunities and pathways into employment for students studying in Health.

Engagement with events

Chesterfield Royal Hospital have demonstrated an enthused willingness to participate in a range of key internal events such as Employer Forums, Open Evenings, and curriculum planning.

Chesterfield College are extremely grateful for the ongoing dedicated support that Chesterfield Royal Hospital provide to each and every one of our students and are excited to be involved in developing this partnership further through strong collaboration, contributing to having a positive impact towards the community.

Interested in becoming a partner?